Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Open Access Journal: The Bible and Critical Theory

The Bible and Critical Theory is an exploratory and
innovative online scholarly journal for biblical studies, published by
the Bible and Critical Theory Seminar. The journal explores the
intersections between critical theory, understood in the broad sense,
and biblical studies. It publishes peer-reviewed articles that
investigate the contributions from critical theory to biblical studies,
and contributions from biblical studies to critical theory. The journal
has an active series of book reviews, which are published as they are
ready.

BCT content is available freely on an open access basis. It is also aggregated by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and is indexed by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion Database and Scopus.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.